I'm shooting for a "tween" game that's not too old, but not too new. 1989. Hopefully, that should satisfy the old fogies & the young 'uns.

When I first saw Strider at the Red Baron Arcade in the Franklin Park Mall back in Toledo, OH, I remember being blown away by the graphics, the style, the ability to climb & hang & flip around, the vibrance of the enemy characters, & the grandiose & complex environments.

- Last day is Sunday August 22th (11:59:59pm Pacific Daylight Time), 2010.

- High score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings are optional, but encouraged!

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the screen if playing on a real machine.

- If you're a MARP competitor on this title, keep in mind this is just a friendly competition amongst forum members, so maybe you shouldn't enter. However, if you're a forum member and this is a game you're good at and nobody knows about it, this is your time to shine!

- Even if you don't have a competitive score or if you don't *think* that you have a competitive score, please post it anyway to keep the thread fun & to give everybody a good sense of score ranges.

I got around 35,000but man 68 damn I'm going to have to work a little harder

As for the Dancers if you do the slide attack just as they land from a jump you can take em down easyalthough I still haven't perfected the timing enough to get all 3 without taking a little damage, but I have made it out of there with only one hit

After playing some more Strider last night (don't worry, 59k was my best last night!), I played some Strider 2. It plays pretty terribly on my machine (sound stutters & very low framerate).

Wow, I forgot how cool they made Strider 2! Great use of 3D environments that are navigated like a 2D game. Cool bosses. The game froze after about 10 minutes or so--dang. The one complaint that I have w/ Strider 2 is that you can't walk & slash at the same time--you stop walking when you start wailing on the sword button--that's a pretty big departure from the game mechanics of Strider 1...

By the way, part of the trick is never getting hit. You lose a helper when that happens. On level one, if you never get hit and you manage to find all the bonus containers, you end up with a robotic jaguar. Very useful to have. But I only ever got it once. I can't beat the dancers. They take cheap shots.

Btw, Strider 2 will play great on almost any PC using the playstation based emulator Zinc.

so are you playing a playstation version or does Zinc play the mame rom?

Zinc is an arcade emulator that plays all the PSX based arcade games (tekken, SFEX, etc). You even get hardware acceleration and higher resolutions. Only problem with it is it has no NVRAM save. And its a pain to set up. It plays the mame rom (probably an older version of the rom).